What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Five friends I had and two of them snakes.

The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.

All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.