Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.