God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.
Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.
Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.