"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."
"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent."
"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."
"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience."
"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."