I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.