We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.