We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.