Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

What do they teach them at these schools?

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

In worship, God imparts himself to us.