Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.