Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.