I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

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

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.