We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.