Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.