Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?