"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."
"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
"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."