I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.