All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.