A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is higher than anyone else in the world. A saint is the real mountain climber. A saint is also lower than anyone else in the world. As with water, he flows to the lowest places - like Calcutta.

We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

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