A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.