The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.