To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.