If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.