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.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.

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

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.