It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

I certainly don't see myself as Caligula.

Consuming is the opposite of producing.

We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry