We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.