In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.