I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.