My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.