In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

I looked for the church and I found it in the world; I looked for the world and I found it in the church.

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

Beauty becomes tinged with sadness when experienced alone.

Why did you shoot him?""You weren't around, " I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.