A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.

I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

I'll admit it, the Holocaust was definitely a bad thing, but do we really need Jewish people around? They have big noses. I said it! I said it!

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

Kill them with success and bury them with a big smile

Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

Difference is not equated with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving.