Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.