Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

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.

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.