I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

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

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.