The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.