The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.