"I am not a theologian, not even a professional philosopher. I am a literary man, who from a certain point in his life has found himself extremely interested in theology and philosophy."

"What we call 'nature' is a system of events. But there is another kind of system, a system of events which are not natural, but supernatural."

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

"I can imagine a man being so immersed in his own troubles that he does not attend to the sufferings of others, but I cannot imagine a man being so happy that he does not attend to the sufferings of ot…"

"Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before."