No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.