Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.