But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.