She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.