When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.