The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.