We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.