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

To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.