Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

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.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.