Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.