Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.

If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is.

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.