Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)