The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.