The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.