There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.