A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

I am not concerned at present with blame; I am trying to find out truth.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back to a lesson that it wants to shirk.

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.