“...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...”

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

“Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word of consolation in Scripture.”

“He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.”

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

“God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.”