There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!