God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps the courage to speak with unlocked hearts, that we don't know at all that it is the same with others.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything. You are so sure you know what the promise promised! And the danger is that when what He means by ‘wind’ appears you will ignore it because it is not what you thought it would be—as He Himself was rejected because He was not like the Messiah the Jews had in mind.

If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.