There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

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

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.