The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life..

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny..

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased..

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed….

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said..

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent..

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other co….

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance..

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence..

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal..

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exc….

Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort o….

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense..

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing..

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world..

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists….

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him..

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk..

And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make m….

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision..

Ink is the great cure for all human ills..