You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.