I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.