Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I….

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given.….

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again..

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship..

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having..

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting..

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a s….

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'..

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience direc….

Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean..

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usuall….

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God..

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys..

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed..

The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man ….

I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God,….

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the ….

Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM..

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither..

The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has th….

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy..