The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.