People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

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.

The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.