Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.