When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.