See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.

We must get over wanting to be needed.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.