No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.