"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on"concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."
"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."