It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.