Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself