Capital T truth is dead.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

He carries well, to whom it waighes not. [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]

I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls.

Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.