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

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.