I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

We are what we believe we are.

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.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.