You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God