We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'