All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.
Sometimes fairy stories may say best what’s to be said.
To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.
Why must holy places be dark places?
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.
We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.
I came alive when I started loving you.
Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.
Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.
The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.
We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.
Be good, sweet maid, and don’t forget that this involves being as clever as you can.
I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.