A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.