The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Lady Capricorn, he understood, was still keeping open bed.

Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats walking along with them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.

Spritual grace can't be received continuously or in its fullness, except by those who have willed away their self-will to the point of being able truthfully to say, "Not I, but God in me."

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

We need grace in order to be able to live in such a way as to qualify ourselves to receive grace.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The daily bread of grace, without which nothing can be achieved, is given to the extent to which we ourselves give and forgive.