That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.