Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.