Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.