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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

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The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.

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You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But ...more

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Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others... but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yours...more

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Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anythin...more

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Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such ...more

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Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

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Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a...more

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talk...more

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How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at m...more

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If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that thought the most of the next. The Ap...more

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It's not a question of God `sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the b...more

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If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we...more

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There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They were melted do...more

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Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.