The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.