In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.