[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons