There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.