Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

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

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.