Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.