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?

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.