For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures..

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.….

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..

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

I pray because I can't help myself..

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the….

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me..

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words..

All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that….

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all thi….

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to bel….

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours..

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair..

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind..

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with complete….

Love, having become a god, becomes a demon..

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have..

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned..

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature….

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy..