It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The motive for marriage must be eternal not just temporal.

you dont have to follow trends, you should set them, because there are too many 'her's and 'him's but there is only one 'you'

So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless.

People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.

Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-" "He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.