The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.