Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

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.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you everything else. It's up to you to be happy with what you have or not.

I swallowed and bit my lower lip, "Maybe freedom is never truly free, as they say, " I said into his green eyes, "it comes with a price, and sooner or later, time will come to collect its toll.

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Don't congratulate yourself for baseline integrity.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL