And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.

...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory