And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.