It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.