The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.