Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.