Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

I want God, not my idea of God.

I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.