If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

I want God, not my idea of God.

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.