"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

"If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world."

"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."