How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.