Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.