The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

Who asked them dern pigs?” he said. “I guess they tracked us, ” Augustus said. “They’re enterprising pigs.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Be kind to everyone, and don't leave yourself out of the equation.

I was done with wrestling and I was teaching with competition behind me. It was that experience that gave me confidence and propelled me to fight.

-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.