You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways that I specially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.