The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.