When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.