The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'