The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.