Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.