Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

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

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.