I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.

You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.