I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

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.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.