Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

If you understand, it is not God.

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.