If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

...chance may do anything.

What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.