The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

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.