How terrible the need for God.
People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.
The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.
Let us prepare for that blessed day when He will come again. Let us be as wise as those ancients who watched for His coming.
The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.
A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time - the telling of what came first and before done forever.
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
