There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.