The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed.

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.

Love ignites spiritual fire in the soul.

Pain does not differentiate between rich and poor or Christian and Buddhist. It brings the same feelings to everyone.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.

What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

To be great is to assume great concerns.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.