We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good.
We laugh at honor, and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
I was allowed to play at philosophy no longer.
We need to keep our eyes and ears open.
The dream is ended - this is the morning.
You can make anything out of writing.
You couldn't expect good times to last.
Man is to be understood only in his relation to god.
They have pulled down deep heaven on their heads.
Anger is the fluid that love bleed when it gets cut.
You do not see as quite as well as you think.
Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.
Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
All that is not eternal is eternally useless.
Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.
To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.
Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.
A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.
I am conscious of a partly pathological hostility toward what is fashionable.
Until you have given up your self to him you will not have a real self.
It is not fore nothing that you are named ransom.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.
The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.
The more he fears, the more he'll hate.
They are all friends of mine and honest people.
You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of god in flowers or music.