Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

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