The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.