The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.

We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).