The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.