If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right." The Gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.