Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.