It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Slogans seem to be dead

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

The highest tone is hard to hear.

Would you care to walk to the river?” -Miles “I would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.