To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.