God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

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

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

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.

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.