What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.