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.

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.