Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.