It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

Don't be afraid or too arrogant to surround yourself with people who are doing much better than you, because they could definitely push and stretch you to discover your hidden abilities in life.

Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

We have nothing to fear but our mothers.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!