Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.