Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.