When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.