I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

Anyone can stay true to your face, it's the people who stay true behind your back that really count.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.

Appreciate those who love you. Serve those who need you. Forgive those who hurt you. Thank those who help you.

The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don't let the little things get you down.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.

Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.