She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

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.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.