The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.