You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.