I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'

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

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.