I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

To love is to be vulnerable.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.