Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.