“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”
“I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.”
“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”
“The heretics were never dishonest men; they were mistaken men. They should not be thought of as men who were deliberately setting out to go wrong and to teach something that is wrong; they have been some of the most sincere men that the Church has ever known. What was the matter with them? Their trouble was this: they evolved a theory and they were rather pleased with it; then they went back with this theory to the Bible, and they seemed to find it everywhere.”
“God cheats men into living on by hiding how blessed it is to die.”
“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”