Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.