Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.