We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.