Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him in her own way, doubtless communicates that unique vision to all the rest. That, says an old author, is why the Seraphim in Isaiah's vision are crying "Holy, Holy, Holy" to one another (Isaiah VI, 3). The more we thus share the Heavenly Bread between us, the more we shall all have.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.