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

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.