God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.