Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks