It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.