A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.