Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.