The night on Golgotha is so important in the history of man only because, in its shadow, the divinity abandoned its traditional privileges and drank to the last drop, despair included, the agony of death. This is the explanation of the Lama sabactani and the heartrending doubt of Christ in agony. The agony would have been mild if it had been alleviated by hopes of eternity. For God to be a man, he must despair.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in their most profound manifestations, are centuries that have tried to live without transcendence.

The most painful thing to bear is seeing a mockery made of what one loves.

I wonder whether, in the history of all the civilisations that have ever been, a more insanely optimistic notion has ever been entertained than that you and I,…

Above all creeds, above all religions, after all, is that divine thing, - Humanity.

You can't conceive, nor can I, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.