It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.