I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.