If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'