There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.