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.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex