If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

Things always work according to their nature.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.