The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller