Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

I'm not much of a challenge here in the dark.

Karma is God's girlfriend.

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

If there were no Love, there'd be no grief