Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'

Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.