Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Faith is God's work within us.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.

To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.

I'll fake it through the day somehow with Johnny Walker Red.

By their fruits ye shall know them.

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

If you are under control you're going too slow.

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!