Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.