When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.

And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.