True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.