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.

Come, live with me and you'll know me.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.