I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.