Great Throughts Treasury

"You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues... I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears."

"You don't bless what you love... It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate... It would be better to love, but that's not always possible."

"You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns."

"You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?"

"You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other..."

"You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But You are too good to me. When I ask You for Pain, You give me peace. Give it him too. Give him my peace-he needs it more."