There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'