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.

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.

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

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.

If in day to day life you lead a good life, honestly, with love, compassion, and less selfishness, then automatically you will find peace.

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

You are worthy of a great life. Desire, dream and seek it.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?

The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.