“To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are br...”

“It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.”

“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.”

“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.”

“If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could be. If it could be somehow proved, then...”

“Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessed...”

“It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.”

“There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.”

“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”