Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else