I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.