We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.