Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

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

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.