To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.