We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.