And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.