Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

Christianity is a fighting religion.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.