This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.