Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.