Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.