My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.