A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

If you thirst you may drink.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.