A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

To love another person is to help them love God.

The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.