Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.