Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

We must get over wanting to be needed.

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.