The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.