No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.