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

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.