In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us