Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.