First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.