Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.