Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.