Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.

Further up and further in!

When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.