Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.