If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.