If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.