Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.

It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.