I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

The measure of love is love without measure.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

This wasn't a person, Zuzana thought, this was greed wearing skin.

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.