Joy is the serious business of heaven.

I pray because I can't help myself.

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.