The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.