Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Father! Can I box him? Please!

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

The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.