Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.

Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem. It’s a condition. It’s a passion of a kind. It’s not a problem. I think that people make it a problem by interpreting it that way.’ 

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition of Protestantism that comes out of the Reformation and that produced people like Kant and Hegel and so on, who are not normally thought of as being people writing in a theological tradition, although Hegel, of course, wrote theology his whole life.