We feel unbeatable at Ewood Park - even when we play away

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

Tiny acts of kindness can have BIG results.

These days people call entertainment capturing someone at their lowest moment and then posting it for the world to see.

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.