The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.