When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

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.

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?