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.

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

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.