The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.