As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.