Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.