Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.

Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.

If you can't find the spirit of the holidays in your heart, you'll never find it under a tree.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

My radio show, I'd show up, I'd read the data, and I would have sound bites and stuff like that.

I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

I'm amazed that anyone is interested in what I have to say.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.