The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.