Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.

I will forsake everything to fulfill the Fathers calling.

Don't just bring people to church

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

I've never met Hans Rosling, but I just knew him through his many YouTube videos, and they were absolute dynamite.