You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.