God and Man

God doesn't learn from experience, does He, or how could He hope anything of man?
— Graham Greene, from Our Man in Havana

Two from Graham Greene

We are told to forgive our brother seventy times seven and we needn't fear God will be any less forgiving than we are, but nobody can begin to forgive the uncontrite. It is better to sin seventy times and repent each time than sin once and never repent.  



Beauty is like success: we can never love it for long. —from The Heart of the Matter