God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.