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

"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."

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

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

"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"

"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs."

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

"Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go."

"Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth."

"Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle."

"God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word."

"In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads."

"The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing."

"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."

"So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom."

"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog."

"It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so."

"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."

"The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other."

"Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words."

"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?"

"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."

"I lack nothing. I only needed myself."