Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

Things always work according to their nature.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.