Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.