When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in our 'supposed loss'. It can be helpful to think of the loss of that blessing as simply necessary to make way for another different blessing].

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.