I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

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.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.