Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.