In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

I came alive when I started loving you.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).