If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.