Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.