There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

Things always work according to their nature.

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.