Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.