You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

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.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.