Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.