Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.