Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?