I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

...the Lot's knowledge of the country's torment was academic. Time went on a different schedule there. Nothing too nasty could happen in such a nice little tow…

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.

Late at night I keep thinking: if I had only reached to that girl, if only, if only.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And …

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are only consequences. The life of Christ is worth its example, its moral force, its heroism of ben…

But he who dares to use the word 'God' for such devilish activity blasphemes against Providence and, according to our belief, he cannot end except in destructi…