And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.