Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you'd be a true Christian".

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.