Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.