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Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

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

Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don’t feel at home there?