Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.