Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.