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

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

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

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