In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.