Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

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".

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.