God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

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

A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.