If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.