Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be in love need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love as distinct...
Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. L...
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robbe...
Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely...
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim su...
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 who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs....
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.
To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies...
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...
When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid,...
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