“Love gives you eyes.”

“God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.”

“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.”

“The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.”

“Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.”

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

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