I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

They Open A Door And Enter A World

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.