There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

You have every right to be free, Miss Langdon. No one is denying you that. But freedom is only valuable if you use your freedom wisely.

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.