With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.