The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.