Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.