We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.