Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.