Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.