On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

All that is not God is death.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.