The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased".

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.