Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant – in a word, real.
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.
It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.
Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.
The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.
I am in love and out of it I will not go.
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.