No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.