The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who will be saved from the coming destruction.

On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal life span, but that He may not do it in any other way?

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity

You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems.

The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.

for all I can really do isstand herein September’s rainsavoring…soaking it all inslipping..and simplyholding on to poetryfor dear life.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.