How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion...
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just...
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will...
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will present...
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think i...