I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

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

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?