True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

There seems no plan because it is all plan.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.