Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?