"In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."
"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on"concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."