No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.