The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.

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.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.