We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

The absent are easily refuted.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.