For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet.

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by the abuse of his free will.

If someone ridicules you, say to him, I love you.

I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

Today isn't just another day. Today I'll create something beautiful.

Who doesn't like money? I love money. Why not. My subject matter will change when I get to that point.

I don't even think about fame at all.

Use your powers for good instead of evil

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

Life is not yours to take.

People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.

Fate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.