....nature Imposes Nothing On You That Nature

Fire, Loveliest Of The Four Elements Of The World, And Yet An Element Too In Hell. While It Burned Adoringly In The Core Of The Temple, It Had Also Scorched The Life From A City, This Night, And Spewed Its Venom Over The Land. How Strange Of God To Speak From A Burning Bush, And Of Man To Make A Symbol Of Heaven Into A Symbol Of Hell.

But Neither Infinite Power Nor Infinite Wisdom Could Bestow Godhood Upon Men. For That There Would Have To Be Infinite Love As Well.

Men Must Fumble Awhile With Error To Separate It From Truth, I Think- As Long As They Don't Seize The Error Hungrily Because It Has A Pleasanter Taste.

For No Change Comes Calmly Over The World.

To Minimize Suffering And To Maximize Security Were Natural And Proper Ends Of Society And Caesar. But Then They Became The Only Ends, Somehow, And The Only Basis Of Law - A Perversion. Inevitably, Then, In Seeking Only Them, We Found Only Their Opposites: Maximum Suffering And Minimum Security.