Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.