Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.