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

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

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

It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.