Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Treat time and money as though they are the same by using both resourcefully.

Some of our friends put our enemies out of work.

...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...

This is how you love: you do it in all the wrong ways, because that is the only way we know how.

Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

Because dying for God is a higher pleasure... than living without Him.

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself

Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights.