No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.