You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

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

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.