"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.""
"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest."
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."
"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."
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
