No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.