With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
Die before you die, there is no chance after.
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
We’re free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you’re running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn’t your horse any longer. One might just as well say you’re her human.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
Further up and further in!
This moment contains all moments.
The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one’s own.
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated.
And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back – if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.