"For whatever reason, God chose to make man as he is--limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death--He had the honesty and courage to take His own medicine. . . . He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair and death. . . . He was born in poverty and died in disgrace, and thought it was worthwhile."--Dorthy Sayers