Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.