You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?