The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.