The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

Tell me, tutor, ' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.

What if the very reason you were created was to be creative?

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

Though you treat me badly, I love you madly.

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.