Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
. . . love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
It's only through form that we can realize emptiness