Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an harrow to the string then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontier-post across it. So many roads once now so many culs de sac.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.