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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact?

Are we not willing to surrender and follow Him, like Simon and Andrew, to rearrange our life around Him? ... jonathanrbailey.com/home/201…

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary.

He [God] cannot ravish; He can only woo.

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact?

Send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

[The enemy] has filled His world full of pleasures . . . Everything has to be twisted before it is any use to us.

You don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours.

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

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one.

All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will.

One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, service being perfect freedom, is not propaganda, but an appalling truth.

We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

When they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.