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

When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.