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 old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

Imagine yourself as a living house.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways that I specially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment.

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.