One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.