We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.