Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

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.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?