There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.