When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

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

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.