Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.