If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.