Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.