Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

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.

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are