The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right." The Gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.