Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.