You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in our 'supposed loss'. It can be helpful to think of the loss of that blessing as simply necessary to make way for another different blessing].

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.