I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.