Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.

We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.