It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.