“People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is diffe...”

“All new news is old news happening to new people”

“The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.”

“Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.”

“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing ...”

“There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being...”

“He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; ...”

“It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.”

“Politics unfortunately abounds in shams that must be treated reverentially for every politician who would succeed. If you are the sort of man whose stomach revolts against treating shams reverentia...”

“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credu...”

“In our day everyone wants to appear intelligent, one would prefer to be accused of crime than of naivet if the accompanying risks could be avoided. But since intelligence cannot be drawn from the v...”

“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is ...”

“If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin wouldve changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.”

“Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.”