The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.