Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet.

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by the abuse of his free will.

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Today is older than tomorrow, that is the power of the present

Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

I think maybe our team was too young and stupid to even know what was going on.

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.