God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

The death of a beloved is an amputation.