We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.