Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory
True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what Iād call bitterly tired ā only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.
That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.