God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.

Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

Further up and further in!