For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.