Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Obedience is the road to freedom.