Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.