We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.