Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.