I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.