Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.

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

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.