"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. "

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."

"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ."

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."

"We are what we believe we are."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere."

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."