“Joy is the serious business of heaven.”

“and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”

“My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.”

“Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.”

“As there is one Face above all worlds merely to see which is irrevocable joy, so at the bottom of all worlds that face is waiting whose sight alone is the misery from which none who beholds it can recover.”

“The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty.”

“Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.”