Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.