It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.