The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events; he has risen with Christ.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.