It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.