Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.

We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'