Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.