If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.

In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.