The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.