Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

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

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

The absent are easily refuted.

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.