A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.

I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

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.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.