Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.