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

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

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

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