If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.