Do not dare not to dare.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.