I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.