Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous