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

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.