Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

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.

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.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

I just loved playing the mean girl. When you're not like a character, it's kind of fun to play.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

I've seen UFOs, and Loch Ness - I've been to Loch Ness a few times looking for Nessie, and that's also a beautiful place to be.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.