We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.