It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.