God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers