In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

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.

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis