Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.