Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.