No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

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

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.