Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior