My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.