"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imag…"

"The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life."

"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."

"A children's story that only children can enjoy is not a good children's story in the slightest."

"We are told that God is love. But when we think of love, we think of something soft and gentle. God's love is a consuming fire."