Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.