I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.