“God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.”

“Of course, now I had to show I was worthy, but I didn’t feel at all concerned. I would do whatever it took to get there. I didn’t share my feelings of pride with anybody. My style was to keep moving and not reflect too much. But it felt great.”

“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free. Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.”

“As Proverbs 17:9 reminds us, peace is more likely when one forgets about past wrongs as opposed to reminding others of them.”

“and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”

“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.”

“I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the dart belongs in usufruct to the living.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“The Bible says in Romans 12:21 that we overcome evil with good.”

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

“We call this a sweet life; to have your impact solutes dissolved in the life of people giving them a solution to their life problems... You can imagine how tasty that could be!”

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”

“[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.” 

“have a vision, trust yourself, break some rules, ignore the naysayers, don’t be afraid to fail.”

“noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good.”