Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased".

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.