When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.