There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways that I specially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment.

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.