Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

You can walk in the light by faith.

Getting caught up in someone else's dream is like a drug. Sometimes you have to go cold turkey.

How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about?

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.