The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.