I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.