I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.