Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.

To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.

The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.