After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly