It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

I am a product [...of] endless books.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.