To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

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 we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.