It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.

To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.