Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good?

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

What do I love when I love my God?

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

She may resemble a mythical angel, but she moved like an x-rated wet dream

He that will learn to pray let him go to Sea.

Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.