You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

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

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

Why must holy places be dark places?

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.