I am a product [...of] endless books.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.