Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
“Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.”
“In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.”