You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say ‘infinitely' when you mean ‘very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
Make your choice, adventurous Stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.
Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. ... He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. ... You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.