We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.