I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants, ' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.

I hate when being kind and silly is mistaken for weakness. Then I have to correct them and it's a lot of hassle and I can't be nice to them again.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.

When the president went around the table to the country's national security leadership, Hillary was clear: We have to go get bin Laden. And our Special Operations Forces did just that.

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.