One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God 'made up out of His head' as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

Man must endure his going hence.