Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.