Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.