In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.