“For he was firmly of the conviction that the body was more susceptible to disease without the presence of love to warm the organs.”

“The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization.”

“The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.”

“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”

“To have firm conviction and to be able to surrender – that’s a strong combination. However, don’t let your convictions make a convict out of you.”

“It was she whom I loved and whom I could not therefore see without that anxiety, without that desire for something more, which destroys in us, in the presence of the person we love, the sensation of loving.”