We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself