From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.