Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.