The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

Father! Can I box him? Please!

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

They Open A Door And Enter A World