Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.