Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.