When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.