I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.