The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.