Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.