For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.