The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.