"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."

"Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw."

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

"Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly."

"Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing."

"To try to be brave is to be brave."

"Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy."

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

"Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."

"No story ever really ends, and I think I know why."

"It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another."

"Philosophy is really homesickness."

"All that is not God is death."

"I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."

"There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection."

"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book."

"People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it."

"The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself."

"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."

"If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence"

"Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."

"It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again."

"Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise."

"You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave."

"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)"

"You doubt because you love truth."

"I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better."

"Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will."

"And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay."

"Past tears are present strength."

"Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue."

"Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable."

"To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good."

"No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather."

"Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner."

"Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing."

"If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either."

"Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again"

"Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil."

"A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home"

"My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am."

"But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart."

"It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice."

"There is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away."

"But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest."

"There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator."

"I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself."

"I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation."

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."