It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.