The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?

I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.