I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

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.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.