That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.

That's the trouble with you preachers, " he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything, " and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.

The children of Spirit are laughing, cursing, chatting, walking and running. They ooze holiness in all that they are and do.

Our whole life is wasted in trying to change others. For a change, try to change yourself! It is easier and at least under your control.

In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next . . .

Start by doing what's necessary then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.