The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.