Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.