“It was an unbroken network of causality leading back to the first human who wasn't a chimp. And farther back, to the coalescing of the planets around the sun. If you wish to call that God, go ahead.”
“The man who wishes to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.”
“When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.”
“As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.”
“The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.”