I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.

Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of th…

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the mod…

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

I've said many times that you can't stop science.... God made man in his own image. God intended for man to become one with God. We are going to become one wit…

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