Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.