Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.