Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.
I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.