We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.