Evangelism is not simply a matter of bringing individuals to personal faith, though of course that remains central to the whole enterprise. It is a matter of confronting the world with the good, but deeply disturbing, news of a different way of living, … the way of love.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Material affluence in no respect lessens my need to rely on God. Actually, it increases it. I am in greater spiritual danger when I have plenty than when I have nothing. Hence the almost greater need of the wealthy to cry to God for mercy that they may not fail to trust him.

To worship God in spirit and in truth means to worship God as we should worship him. … To worship God in truth is to recognise him for what he is and to recognise ourselves for what we are.

Religion was [once] a set of obligations owed to God. Today people regard religion as a species of therapy; a dimension of individual self-consciousness, individual meaning and reaffirmation. Religion is about what God owes them.

God treat[s] His Creation with integrity: each thing in its own order, each thing the way He made it. … If ...