The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
At the end of things, The Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” And the lost will say, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly.
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you’re not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you’re the one who must decide how you handle it.
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.
Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.