If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?