Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

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

The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.