It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, '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. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?