I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

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

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?