Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?