As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.