Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?