I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

Beauty is a perilous gift.

I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired