What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.
If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.
I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.
To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.
Selfishness has never been admired.
Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
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.