'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.