If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.