True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ