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

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.