How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.