A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

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

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.