We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.