The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

I love a lot of people, understand none of them.

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.