You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?