He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.