I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.