When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.

Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is scared, son.

I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

You might be a redneck if an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger changed your life.

I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up.

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.