“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.