Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?