As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.
I want God, not my idea of God.
I came alive when I started loving you.
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.