Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world.