When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

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

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.