You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.