In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening.

We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Every soul is a soul.

You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.

Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It’s something I believe in, but I don’t want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.