If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

this is a book about something

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.