Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.