Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.