The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself.

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it.

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.