and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that anyone can decide this moment that he will never feel it anymore. That is not how things happen. I mean that every time it bobs its head up, day after day, year after year, all our lives long, we must hit it on the head. It is hard work, but the attempt is not impossible.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?