I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.