Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.