Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over