Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.