God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.