You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

To be a saint is to will the one thing.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.