The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.