'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

The longest way round is the shortest way home

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.