When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.