The doors of hell are locked from the inside!
It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.
Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women’s magazines.
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.
God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life’s short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily.
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.
Christ, who said to the disciples, ‘You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,’ can truly say to every group of Christian friends, ‘You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.’
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.
And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.
God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.
Provocation doesn’t make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.