A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.