Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?