The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.