Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly