The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

In our adversity, God shouts to us.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.