When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.