Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.