Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.