There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

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 of Christ.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods

faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.