There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.