A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.