The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.