There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.