I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.