If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.