The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

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.