One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.