We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.