I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Why must holy places be dark places?

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.