I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

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

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.