"It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable."
"The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting."
"Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts."
"We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love."
"Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am."We are ontological oxymorons."
"God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with."