You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'