When we say "God made you like that", we must not mean that God does not regard the disorders we suffer as disorders.

Sometimes it helps to have concepts or ideas explained to us like we're a child.

Each day, we must build up our stock of joy, in the form which constitutes the highest and the purest joy, in the form of wonder.

The poet W.H. Auden once lectured me about the wrongness of modern translations rendering Holy Ghost as Holy Spirit. 

I think it was Jean Améry who said that once you have been tortured you remain tortured.

Facebook or Google taking over the world is a distant, speculative fear. Being harassed, humiliated, shunned and unemployed are immediate fears. We increasingly live in a digital panopticon ruled as much by mobs as by the overseers.

We often hear that religion is a very private matter.

In the depth of our soul, there always remains the tendency to measure divine things by our human standard.

The exotic concept of spontaneous generation was taken seriously by astute thinkers for a long time before the invention of microbiology. 

How sad it would be to cut oneself off from God's action and bury oneself in the narrow, illusory world of one's own projects.