Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
Hope is a risk that must be run.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.
Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
Hell madame is to love no longer.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of...