If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.

But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.