Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

Every joy is beyond all others.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

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

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs