All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.