We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.