How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

Grace can and does have a history.

The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!