If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.