We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.