It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.
We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.
Don’t think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
History is a story written by the finger of God.
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.