There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'

I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.