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.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

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.