I had a happy, idyllic, old-fashioned childhood. Go to the town where I spent that childhood, you will not find my happy hours there. Yet they remain definite constituents of a divine reality about which true statements can still be made. My happy childhood was a gift my parents and the world offered to God.

[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

Too many intellectuals look down on religion and think it will go away. God is not going to go away. There are far more religious people in the world today tha…

Hitler made it impossible to keep believing in pacifism, which was one of the many terrible things he did to the world.