We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.
Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.
The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.
We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.
Be good, sweet maid, and don’t forget that this involves being as clever as you can.
I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.
When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.
You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
If you have a religion it must be cosmic.
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
As for wrinkles – Pshaw! Why shouldn’t we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don’t forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.