Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

What I call my ‘self’ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‘our own life’ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’

Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.