To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

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