Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.