Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best