Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.