God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.