Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.