If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.