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

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

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

You Too? I thought I was the only one.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.