The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

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

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else