The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

We read to know we're not alone.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.