In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

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