Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would … - Walter M. Miller

It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

The old man was sad as he sat on his porch. He knew so little of the Great Purpose. Why must his seed fling itself starward? He knew that it must — but he lacked a reason. His grandchildren played in the twilight, played space-games, although there was not yet a starship on the planet.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.