I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.