Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

In our adversity, God shouts to us.

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.