Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.