We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

The more you know, the more you see

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.