Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

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.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

A leader gets things done.