Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
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.
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 task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
You can make anything by writing.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
