"God whispers to us in our joys, speaks to us in our conscience, and shouts to us in our pain; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions, and favorite wishes everyday and death of your body- in the end you will find eternal life."

"The more we get what we call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take over, the more truly ourselves we become in that sense our real selves are all waiting for us in Him."

"God loves us not because we are lovable, but because He is love."

"The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus inside a woman's body. If you want to get the hang of it, think how you would like to become a slug or a crab."

"Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is...that is why bad people know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means-the only complete realist."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrong and possible broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal...Lock it up safe in the coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket...it will changed. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable...the only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."