Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Christian life consists in faith and charity.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!

The never-ending flight of future days.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. MADELEINE L'ENGLE

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

But we also need stories. Great stories.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.