"If he ever consciously directs his prayer 'Not to what I think thou art but to what thou knowest thyself to be', our situation is, for the moment, desperate," (Letter 4, p. 18) .

"Of all humans the English are in this respect the most deplorable milksops. They are creatures of that miserable sort who loudly proclaim that torture is too good for their enemies and then give tea and cigarettes to the first wounded German pilot who turns up at the back door," (Letter 6, p. 17).

"One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth. He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself," (Letter 8, pp. 38-39).

"Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no...