Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.

If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.