Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

I pray because I can't help myself.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.