I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.