“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free. Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.”

“Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no matter how small and where obscured they have started!”

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.”

“Ben learned an important lesson: sometimes to survive you need to face your fear and overcome it.”

“There is no harvest without hard work, therefore never expect chance to solve your problems of abject need for you. You must take deliberate actions!”

“Further up and further in” 

“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”

“But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.”

“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.” 

“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”

“By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed."

“Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7”

“You’re not being responsible with what God gave you if you’re hanging out with time wasters who have no goals and no dreams.”

“A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.”