The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

Further up and further in!

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.