Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.