Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him